Social Security Handbook

Your time limit for filing a request for reconsideration, hearing,
or review by the Appeals Council, or a civil action in U.S. District
Court may be extended if you show you had good cause for failing
to file the request within the appropriate time limit. The decision
as to whether or not to grant the extension is made by the office
responsible for making the reconsideration, by the ALJ, or by the
Appeals Council, depending upon who has jurisdiction over the case.
See §2015.

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